Thu
Feb 27 2025
04:17 pm
By: Mark Harmon
Trump is selling citizenship for $5 million. So, we need to modify the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty
"Give me your sleazy, your rich,
Your selfish asses learning to avoid jail,
The wretched excess of your teeming shore.
Send these, the oligarchs, tempest-schemers to me,
I lift my lamp beside the escape hatch!”
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